Minoru Ota

Minoru Ota (7 April 1891-13 June 1945) was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II. He was one of the Japanese commanders at the Battle of Okinawa, and he shot himself as the battle came to a close.

Biography
Minoru Ota was born in Nagara, Japan in 1891, and he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy in 1913. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he commanded the Kure 6th Special Naval Landing Forces, and he was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1942. He commanded an SNLF on New Georgia until 1945, when he was sent to serve as one of the commanders on Okinawa, and he commanded 10,000 soldiers. On 13 June 1945, he shot himself in his command bunker as the Americans surrounded it, sending a farewell telegram to the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters before his suicide.